teye
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Comment · 4 months ago
I figured it was alluding to more conventional approaches to learning them. Reads like you’re making assumptions and defending instead of engaging with criticism in good faith.
Comment · 4 months ago
Where does the commenter say it was only a glance? I share the feeling.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://tenki.so is a tabular representation of the 7-day weather forecast across Japan, which I made for traveling opportunistically.
After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.
Comment · 5 years ago
Mega thanks for making and posting this. I've been searching for a tool to "destructure" exactly this way... not necessarily down to radicals, but to any part that has meaning by itself.
Thank you for citing your sources too. As others have mentioned, much of the fun of learning is developing the tools, and this thread helps fill a gaping hole in mine.
Comment · 6 years ago
How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?
The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.
It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.
https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+ship+channel+plants&...
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7348066,-95.1345542,13223m/d...
Comment · 11 years ago
Not minimalism. Information density. Visibility.
Representing time with colored spaces decreases information density. Green & red blocks aren't enough -- the primary data, the numbers, are still required labels, and are made smaller to accommodate the new elements.
Shrinking the primary data decreases visibility, so you, with decent eyesight, need to be closer. My grandmother will have an even harder time resolving it.
Visibility hasn't been addressed, but deserves to be in any conversation about signage.
Comment · 11 years ago
Graphically representing all times wastes space, making the rules easier to understand for those who can read them, but decreasing legibility.
This is a tradeoff, not an all-around win.
Comment · 12 years ago
Wcd's quality (most recordings are posted in multiple formats including FLAC and 320 & v0 mp3) is assured -- the community is serious and self-policing about encoding. Is the same true of Soulseek?
Comment · 15 years ago
This has been done for a long time on many sites. The Firefox download is one that comes to mind.
I see this as more of a no-brainer for a software download than a standout example of brilliant UX.
Comment · 15 years ago
Tufte, who we all seem to worship, would praise separation of elements with whitespace instead of dividing lines.
This article, like most things from uxmovement.com, would be a lot easier to stomach with data backing up the author's preferences.
Comment · 15 years ago
Not surprising at all. Conventional layout wisdom says give the eye a clear path in a direction it knows.
A multi-dimensional grid takes you in a Z shape, whereas a vertical lineup's images and text are all aligned and easier to distinguish.
Comment · 15 years ago
That body text is borderline illegible, even rendered on a Mac. Horrible choice.